How to Use mud in a Sentence

mud

1 of 2 noun
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  • The car was stuck in the mud.
  • He tracked mud into the house.
  • Each square of the tile floor was covered with a mud mask.
    — Nicole Pyles, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 Mar. 2024
  • The body parts that are not coated in mud are covered in crap.
    — David E. Petzal, Field & Stream, 31 Jan. 2024
  • The last half mile is on foot, past lowing cows and lagoons of mud.
    — Popular Mechanics, 14 Apr. 2023
  • The animal wasn't moving, and its head was stuck in the mud on the riverbank.
    — Seth Carnell, USA TODAY, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Piers stretch out onto the mud, and boats lie on the beaches a half-mile from the water.
    — Carlotta Gall, New York Times, 11 June 2023
  • Those that exhort that our minds might be stuck in the mud are lacking in faith in the strength of our minds.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 5 May 2023
  • Does the nature of the mess (stuff left out vs mud on the floor, for example) matter?
    — oregonlive, 11 July 2023
  • Canada geese were pecking in the mud along the edge of the Truckee River.
    — William T. Vollmann, Harper's Magazine, 16 Oct. 2023
  • The grass surface wasn’t complete on the field yet, Miller said, so the rain turned the ground quickly into mud.
    — Matt Cohen | [email protected], al, 15 July 2023
  • The surrounding mud flats, dunes, and beach are all public land.
    — Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 18 Nov. 2023
  • The snow didn’t bother her in March, the mud didn’t dissuade her in April, the bugs didn’t discourage her in May.
    — Chris Bohjalian, Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Visitors need to scramble across rocks and mud to get to the water.
    — Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 10 Jan. 2024
  • The older sister strips to her socks when the viscous mud starts claiming shoes.
    — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 15 Apr. 2023
  • The footpath winds past piles of junked cars, and over marshy tundra with the texture of a wet sponge, toward a mud pit.
    — Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Sep. 2023
  • Someone had daubed the date in mud with their finger; an attempt to mark a moment in time.
    — Richard Fisher, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Back at al-Fanar street, a man calls for help to dig out the bodies of four children from under the mud.
    — Sarah El Sirgany, CNN, 16 Sep. 2023
  • Cons The tread is shallow which could lead to slips if mud or other debris got lodged in those crevices.
    — Madison Yauger, Peoplemag, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Flounder and speckled gobble them up when hopped across a sand or mud flat.
    — Joe Cermele, Field & Stream, 4 Jan. 2024
  • There was a flash, and the whoosh of several incoming shells sent the team diving into the mud.
    — Michael Schwirtz David Guttenfelder, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2023
  • Fire and ice, rivers of mud; destruction from the skies, emotions overflowing on the ground.
    — Bishop Sand, Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2023
  • The heaviest runoff and mud/debris flows will be on the eastern slopes of the Santa Rosa Mountains.
    — NBC News, 18 Aug. 2023
  • This year's event was marred by a late-summer storm that stranded people for days in foot-deep mud.
    — Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, 4 Sep. 2023
  • Left to flow, the unearthed springs turn dirt roads into unstable slicks of mud.
    — WIRED, 23 Dec. 2023
  • Sunday’s call for help was the second mud rescue call of the season, the department said.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 8 May 2023
  • There are more than 400 mud volcanoes in the country, including the world’s largest.
    — Nell Lewis, CNN, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Our shoes get dragged through the mud, grass and streets on a daily basis, so dirt buildup and stains are almost inevitable.
    — Taryn Mohrman, Good Housekeeping, 20 Apr. 2023
  • More than fifty houses were buried under tons of mud of debris.
    — Patricia Oleas and Cesar Olmos, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Mar. 2023
  • However, mud and loose sediment obscure their view—crews can see just one or two feet in front of them in the murky water.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Apr. 2024
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mud

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  • The 40-acre island would be built just upstream of the dam with the sand and mud the corps dredges out of the lock to keep it open for navigation.
    — Greg Stanley, Star Tribune, 16 Nov. 2020
  • The 2,300 truckloads of red Tennessee clay at first turned to mud and blacked out the driver windshields.
    — Jenna Fryer, Orlando Sentinel, 19 Apr. 2022
  • Deeper lugs are better at biting into the ground but could hang on to mud and muck if the lugs aren’t spaced far enough apart.
    — Adrienne Donica, Popular Mechanics, 6 Jan. 2021
  • The path had turned to mud in the previous day’s rain, but above us the sky was bright blue, streaked with the wispiest of clouds, and the air smelled briny, with a strong sulfuric tang.
    — Nicola Twilley, The New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2020
  • People love to fight for their right to enjoy a dark-roast blend that’s been reduced to mud after an hour on the warming plate of a Mr. Coffee.
    — Tim Carman, Washington Post, 30 Sep. 2022
  • Stubborn snow in the shaded hollows gives way to ice, which gives way to mud which eventually erupts in tiny shoots.
    — Kelly Barnhill, Star Tribune, 24 Mar. 2021
  • The instructions for how to mud a baseball are Talmudic.
    — New York Times, 26 July 2022
  • One dirt road led to his village, and when heavy summer rains turned it to mud, travel was all but impossible.
    — Ann Scott Tyson, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Feb. 2021
  • Elephants use their trunks to throw dirt and mud onto their bodies, providing protection from the sun and from bugs.
    — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Oct. 2022
  • Dozens of campsites suggest hundreds of soldiers were stationed in Vyshneve, and the passage of tanks and heavy equipment has turned the ground to mud.
    — Isabel Coles, WSJ, 15 May 2022
  • This is simply good cultural hygiene, and slippery slopes are a myth, critics say, as the mountain turns to mud and slides into the ocean.
    — Kyle Smith, National Review, 3 Mar. 2021
  • If there were a finder’s fee for incredible archaeology, a lot of it would be paid to mud.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 23 Sep. 2020
  • Rain in the forecast would very likely turn the fields to mud and make the pieces of metal and insulation significantly harder to remove.
    — New York Times, 16 Dec. 2021
  • As temperatures fall, waves of chilling rain follow, dissolving roads and fields, turning them to mud that mires men and equipment.
    — Matthew Luxmoore, WSJ, 24 Oct. 2022
  • Parts of New York City were assailed by more than 3 inches of rain, high winds and threats of hail and tornadoes, while California was digging rock and mud off roads after historic rain swept across much of the state.
    — Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 26 Oct. 2021
  • While Hollywood insiders mud wrestle over who should get which Oscar nominations for what, the rest of us can look forward, not back.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 2 Jan. 2022
  • Though naturally occurring sediment is in dwindling supply from the rivers and creeks feeding the bay, agencies are turning to mud dredged from the bay’s shipping channels to help build these tidal buffers.
    — Julie Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Oct. 2021
  • The rains weren’t intense enough to immediately wash away the dust, instead turning it to mud, which conducts electricity and causes equipment to malfunction or even ignite small fires on power poles.
    — Michael Cabanatuan, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Oct. 2021
  • Two children were killed Saturday night at a mudding event accident in Middle Georgia, according to multiple reports.
    — Steve Burns, ajc, 17 June 2018
  • In North Carolina, where steady downpours swelled waterways and washed rocks and mud onto highways, multiple landslides temporarily closed several lanes on Interstate 40 and closed another highway Tuesday.
    — NBC News, 18 Aug. 2021
  • The 40-acre island would be built just upstream of the dam with the sand and mud the corps dredges out of the lock to keep it open for navigation.
    — Greg Stanley, Star Tribune, 16 Nov. 2020
  • The 2,300 truckloads of red Tennessee clay at first turned to mud and blacked out the driver windshields.
    — Jenna Fryer, Orlando Sentinel, 19 Apr. 2022
  • Deeper lugs are better at biting into the ground but could hang on to mud and muck if the lugs aren’t spaced far enough apart.
    — Adrienne Donica, Popular Mechanics, 6 Jan. 2021
  • The path had turned to mud in the previous day’s rain, but above us the sky was bright blue, streaked with the wispiest of clouds, and the air smelled briny, with a strong sulfuric tang.
    — Nicola Twilley, The New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2020
  • People love to fight for their right to enjoy a dark-roast blend that’s been reduced to mud after an hour on the warming plate of a Mr. Coffee.
    — Tim Carman, Washington Post, 30 Sep. 2022
  • Stubborn snow in the shaded hollows gives way to ice, which gives way to mud which eventually erupts in tiny shoots.
    — Kelly Barnhill, Star Tribune, 24 Mar. 2021
  • The instructions for how to mud a baseball are Talmudic.
    — New York Times, 26 July 2022
  • One dirt road led to his village, and when heavy summer rains turned it to mud, travel was all but impossible.
    — Ann Scott Tyson, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Feb. 2021
  • Elephants use their trunks to throw dirt and mud onto their bodies, providing protection from the sun and from bugs.
    — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Oct. 2022
  • Dozens of campsites suggest hundreds of soldiers were stationed in Vyshneve, and the passage of tanks and heavy equipment has turned the ground to mud.
    — Isabel Coles, WSJ, 15 May 2022

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